Does this mean that I just missed the time when the Linux kernel 2.6.16
was the recent one? Is the code nowhere stored, just developed in the
CVS?
Since the recent kernel version is 2.6.17 I assume that the GFS code was
already developed for 2.6.16. That's why I thought there has to be an
archive of all GFS versions somewhere (that matches the older kernel
versions, because they have been programmed for those in the past). Of
course, then I would not use the latest version of GFS but the version
that has been programmed for kernel 2.6.16.
Is there no other possibility for me than to "downgrade" it on my own
now?
Thanks,
Thomas

Hi Thomas,

CVS keeps all back versions of the code, but it's not necessarily easy
to find a
subset that works with a given kernel, unless it happens to be the one
we're developing on.
However, it shouldn't be too difficult to port the latest GFS to a
different kernel.

The HEAD branch is currently set to compile against 2.6.18-rc4.

I don't know about 2.6.16 specifically, but there are only two changes
necessary to